It's Portfolio Day!!You will create a document on Office365 to share two projects you have completed since Nov. 12th. One you scored really well on and one you could have improved on. Please include all links you will need to share online with your parents. Share the document with Mrs. MacDonald and she will print it out for you to place in your notebook.

8th Grade class: You will be using your iPads to investigate new and exciting apps to present information.Using only Safari or the app store, you are to find one app which you can use to present both audio, visual and textual information. The most important item to remember as you search is the app must be FREE!!! To receive your 10 participation points today, you must write the name of the app and three sentences explaining why the class needs to learn about the app. You will turn this in to Mrs. MacDonald by 8:30. At 8:30 we are going to help Mrs. Urban with a small project!

Students will share the websites they created for their Iditarod mushers!

Remember, all websites were due on Monday the 28th at the beginning of your class period. This was a ten day extension of the original due date of the 18th so no late work will be accepted for full credit! If you turn your website late you will receive half credit for it.

The Iditarod final project is worth 60 points... 15 points each for the four required webpage items. Please remember, even if you have received a poor grade on your classwork blog assignments, you should be correcting them for the final project to receive your 15 points for the blog page. Also if the blogs are written in the correct, narrative form and totally updated on the final project, I will go back and change your assignment grades to match the grade you receive on your daily update blog page. 15 points on your blog webpage will mean receiving an A for your classwork assignments!!

You will have two options for turning in your final Iditarod musher website project...

Option #1 - If you will have access to the Internet as well as the Weebly website and Office365 at home over Spring Break, you may turn in your project on Monday, March 28th at the beginning of your class. If you choose this option all the daily blogs you created on Office365 will need to be copied and pasted to your Weebly website. All four required items listed on the original assignment post will need to be on your website!!

Option #2 - If you will not have access to a computer or the Internet over Spring Break, you will need to turn in your project this Friday at the end of class. You will need to make sure Mrs. MacDonald has the original URL to your Weebly website and you have shared all the daily blogs you created on Office365 with her. You will need to make sure she has access to all four required items found on the assignment post. The items may be on the website or in Office365 word documents you have shared with her.

If you choose Option #1 and Weebly for some reason doesn't work for you at home, you will be required to do Option #2 at home!

Please inform Mrs. MacDonald by the end of class on Thursday, the 17th, which option you have chosen!

Each day this week you will:1. Check the progress of your musher on the Iditarod website and record the information on the musher tracking form2. Read the Armchair Musher blog and the Alaskan Dispatch News for more information on the mushers3. Transfer this information to your "daily musher update" blog webpage. The Daily Musher Update should be written in narrative form!4. After finishing the previous items you may work on the biographical webpage, the mandatory items webpage or the trivia webpage.

There will be a daily update check on your website on Monday, March 14th and Wednesday , March 16th worth 5 points each!

Each day this week you will:1. Check the progress of your musher on the Iditarod website and record the information on the musher tracking form2. Read the Armchair Musher blog for more information on the mushers3. Transfer this information to your "daily musher update" blog webpage. The Daily Musher Update should be written in narrative form!4. After finishing the previous items you may work on the biographical webpage, the mandatory items webpage or the trivia webpage.

There will be a daily update check on your website on Tuesday, March 8th and Thursday, March 10th worth 5 points each!